Tourism Minister Arief Yahya stated in Jakarta on Thursday that the three programs are incentives provided for airlines and wholesalers, Hot Deals Visit Wonderful Indonesia, and Competing Destination Model.
These are viewed as being breakthroughs adopted in a bid to encourage airline operators and attract foreign tourists to visit Indonesia.
Yahya said the strategy was necessary to attract an additional two million foreign tourists this year to achieve the target of 17 million, as the average number of monthly arrivals of foreign tourists currently stands at some 1.25 million.
He said with the three breakthroughs, the Tourism Ministry has forecast that the country would record 1.95 million additional visits at the end of the year.
The minister remarked that with this addition, some 50 thousand visits are still required.
"Yet, the projection of 1.95 million additional arrivals is a realistic target, lower than the optimistic target that we have set," he noted.
Reporting by Hanni Sofia
Editing by Andi Abdussalam
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